Grade 12 - Fashion Industry

Big Ideas

Curricular Competencies

Content Learning Standards

Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts.

Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills.

Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes.

Engage in user-centred research and empathetic observation to determine design opportunities and barriers

Identify and analyze potential users or consumers for a chosen fashion design opportunity

Identify criteria for success, constraints, and possible unintended negative consequences

Identify, critique, and use a variety of sources of inspiration and information

Take creative risks in generating ideas and add to others' ideas in ways that enhance them

Screen ideas against criteria and constraints, and prioritize them for prototyping

Critically evaluate the impacts of competing social, ethical, economic, and environmental considerations on fashion locally, nationally, and globally

Work with users throughout the design process

Choose an appropriate form, scale, and level of detail for prototyping

Analyze the design for the life cycle and evaluate its impacts

Demonstrate appropriate use of a variety of tools, materials, and processes to create and refine textile items

Identify and communicate with sources of feedback

Develop appropriate tests of the prototype

Evaluate design according to critiques and success criteria for continuing iterations of the prototype or abandoning the design idea

Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, cost implications, and time needed for production

Create design, incorporating feedback from self, others, and prototype tests

Use materials in ways that minimize waste

Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate production

Share progress while creating to increase feedback, collaboration, and, if applicable, marketing exposure

Decide on how and with whom to share or promote product, creativity, and, if applicable, intellectual property

Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals

Assess ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively while implementing project management processes

Identify and analyze new design possibilities, including how they or others might build on their concept

Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments

Identify and critically evaluate skills needed for design and production interests, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time

Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems to evaluate suitability for design and production interests

Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use

Analyze the role technologies play in societal change

Examine how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies on a national and global level

Know factors involved in fashion design and fashion collections development, including elements and principles of design

Know the many uses of fashion in society

Know history of fashion and historical influences on current styles

Know social and cultural influences on clothing design and choices

Know properties of fibres and fabrics employed in clothing and accessory design and construction

Know design for the life cycle

Know global and local fashion supply chain

Know marketing and merchandising strategies and processes for clothing and accessories, including brand development and trendsetting strategies

Know legal considerations related to the fashion industry

Know ethical and environmental considerations in the production and marketing of fashion, including cultural appropriation

Know future career options in the fashion industry

Know interpersonal and consultation skills, including ways to interact with clients